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The Press Box

Debate Fallout and Texas Monthly’s Skip Hollandsworth

The Press Box

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss the fallout from the first presidential debate. They weigh in on responses from several reporters and news anchors (2:38) and discuss conspiracy theories that have surfaced. Then on Listener Mail, they answer the question “What cardboard cutouts should be put in the audience at the presidential debates?” (22:53) Then, Texas Monthly writer and editor Skip Hollandsworth joins to discuss his new crime podcast, ‘Tom Brown’s Body’ (32:32). Plus: the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David, Kaylee McEnany claimed today that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was a

0:08.2

Rhodes scholar.

0:09.7

In fact, Amy Coney Barrett went to Rhodes College in Memphis.

0:17.4

What I want to know is as graduates of Big 12 schools.

0:21.2

Oh no.

0:22.2

Should we be offended or should we just go ahead and take the populous line on this one?

0:27.0

Oh my God.

0:28.0

I think you just got yourself kicked out of the Alumni Association.

0:32.2

I mean, I do not the sort of person that says this sort of thing a lot, but I think we can

0:38.4

save our outrage for more important matters, especially when it comes to Kaylee McEnany

0:42.9

and their her half truths or mistruths or whatever else.

0:48.9

I find it hard to get to, first of all, I actually think that's a mistake someone might

0:55.1

make, but somebody didn't spend time doing their job, I guess.

1:00.7

But yeah, I mean, if it's deliberate, it's actually kind of hilarious.

1:04.7

I mean, I don't know that she meant it to be funny, but it's kind of funny.

1:07.7

You think she was just handed a piece of paper where the S in scholar was lower case?

1:12.6

So she technically is a Rhodes scholar.

1:15.0

Do you think she was actually, she was very deliberately, she made the choice deliberately

1:19.7

to say that and knew that she was misrepresenting the facts, but thought in that moment, well,

1:26.8

technically, I'm correct.

1:28.4

No one can see if I'm capitalizing when it's me speaking.

1:31.2

Do you think that's what she was?

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